New Theory for new Experiments:

The new experimental facilities being
planned and built will cover experimental reaction studies for a wide range of
energies with exotic nuclei far off stability, with emphasis on nuclear
structure and dynamics, and astrophysical aspects. The new projects will demand,
with their versatile experimental arrangements, many different kinds of reaction
mechanisms with radioactive beams. New experimental results of high accuracy and
completeness; e.g. quasi-elastic scattering experiments in reverse kinematics
detecting all outgoing reaction products including the recoil protons from the
target. This requires the development of reaction theory to the same accuracy
that is currently achieved for dedicated light-nucleus few-body dynamics, and
theoretical support is essential for the extraction of structure information
from the details of the reaction mechanisms and outcomes.

Objectives

The overall objectives of TNET are to bring nuclear few-body
theory, nuclear many-body valence structure, and nuclear reaction theory to bear
on the reactions that will arise in the new GSI & SPIRAL2 experimental facilities. We want
to understand the reaction mechanisms in sufficient detail and with sufficient
accuracy that useful nuclear structure information may be extracted by the
comparison of experimental results with theoretical predictions using specific
initial structure models.